Support for other cell types

Good news... Yes, it'll happen...

Bad news... Not for a little while yet. I'm changing the current code to make it more like the next version of Tablemanager (this version is more of a 1.5 version). That way migration will be a little easier when v2 comes along, problem is this is taking a little longer than I expected...

I'm going to 'postpone' this issue as the code is already 'in my head' and you'll likely see it implemented in the next release whenever that is - albeit probably in a pretty alpha stage... I do realise that it's a good addition though so it'll be functional as soon as I get round to it.

...And thanks for reminding me to put it in! ;o) Someone had suggested it a while back, but it just slipped from my mind! (Easily done!)

Pobster

I would like to see this sooner rather than later. lol

I hacked the code to allow for textareas as data entry boxes. The amount of information that I need to display is minimal so I could do this without much trouble.

If you need someone to beta test this let me know. I would be happy to do so.

thanks

could you post the patch? i'll test

This is exactly what i need ! My hacking skills are non-existant so i would be hugely appreciative if you could share the code. I need two basic text data entry boxes and 1 checkbox statement.

Many thanks.

For anyone wanting to know, i have solved the issue by creating a node for the text information and a node from the taxonomy table then creating a view of the 2 nodes.

Works fine for me :)

Would still like this added to tablemanager 6 when possible.

Cheers!

I'm considering abandoning the current 6.x-1.x branch as I'm not keen on the structure of it. I think I may rewrite a couple of things to make them more accessible. Really what I'm after is the ability for users (admin users) to be able to write their own 'tablemanager snippets' in the same way that say, Views does. Filters are all well and good, but users don't tend to understand them - don't worry though I'm not going to abandon the filters completely, I think I'm just going to rewrite to have the tables created as nodes in future and have individual settings in the edit tab for each one. This will negate the need for filters at all (I hope) as anything you'd normally set in a filter would be available in the edit tab.

...So apologies for the Tablemanager development downtime, I'm just mulling over which is the best direction to go in...

As for adding a textarea to the cell types, yes this is in the pipeline - only I'd like to wait until after Tablemanager dev is stable (not necessarily RC stable, just dev stable is fine) at the moment there's too much else to do (eg. current 6.x-1.x dev doesn't allow normal users access to manage tables, it's not broken - I just haven't written it yet!)

The ultra, ultra good news after all this is that I've now managed to land myself a Drupal programming job so I've far more spare time than before (when I was working from 1am - 9pm all week...) plus there's that it's a Drupal programming job, so everything programming-wise is fresh in my mind when I get home as it's what I've been doing all day anyway.

Pobster

Good on you , Pobster!

If you need any help with testing, i would be more than happy to help. Programming isn't my forte, but trying to break things is :)

This is just an observation having used Drupal for about a year now, but there is a definite 'market' for an online spreadsheet. I actually needed to create an online timesheet and unsuccessfully tried a number of other modules in combination to achieve this before turning to tablemanager.

Having trawled the net, i couldn't find anything open source / free for an online spreadsheet that was secure and easy to use. (Google docs was the closest)

Maybe an integration with a text editor could be a help - certainly for the less tech savvie - to come up with something akin to Excel.

Good luck with your new job and thanks for the excellent module !

Is there any way to insert textareas in tablemanager 1.4 for drupal 5.x ??

I don´t have enought php knowledge to hack the code :(

cside, I don´t understand the solution that you proposse. is possible to do this on drupal5.x and tablemanager 1.4??

I now have support for the following cell types;

Text
Numeric
Currency
Date
URL
Email
Bar Chart
Selection
Node Reference (autocomplete)
User Reference (autocomplete)
Taxonomy Reference (autocomplete)
Formulas (spreadsheet-like but only on numeric fields so far...)

Not all are committed yet but the code is done.

Pobster

Node Reference (autocomplete)
User Reference (autocomplete)
Taxonomy Reference (autocomplete)

Will it be possible to link the nodes/users/terms only in the table, and not to attach them to the node itself? Because "Reference" means attaching, or am I wrong?

(as I mentioned here: http://drupal.org/node/368714)

Well they're just subsets of the URL cell type, so yeah they're currently just displayed as links to the particular taxonomy/ user/ node passed through url alias. Any columns can be hidden btw and just referenced in the matching/ filtering/ sorting.

Hopefully I'll be putting out a release real soon... Reason being is that I got paid to do some work on the branch 1 code and working on it again renewed my interest in completing branch 2 (as branch 1 is sooooo first generation!)

Pobster

Great, nice to hear. Looking forward to the release.
Table management in Drupal needs love :]